News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines from the "leading provider of support for schools and trusts” insist.
The Daily Sceptic’s new Associate Editor Laurie Wastell invites readers to a lecture he is hosting this Thursday with Professor Nigel Biggar about his book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.
Historian David Olusoga can often be heard complaining about the British Empire and its supposedly malign legacy. But in truth the 'British Empire' is not something that every really existed, says Prof James Alexander.
In a surprise to no one, the King of Asante in Ghana says he'd like to keep the golden relics loaned to him by the British Museum. Looks like they're going the same way as the Benin bronzes, says Mike Wells.
Slavery and colonialism did not make Britain rich, and may even have made the nation poorer, a new study from the Institute of Economic Affairs has found.
Is it time for St. George to stand aside for St. George Floyd? Or is there another makeover of England's patron saint that would make him acceptable to the professionally offended and anti-English crowd?
The historian William Dalrymple pompously suggested Kemi Badenoch should "learn some history" after she denied Britain's economic success was due to white privilege. The historian of empire, Nigel Biggar, begs to differ.
If anything, Britain is owed a debt for its imperial and colonial endeavours, argues Daniel Hannan. "Our species benefited hugely from the industrial revolution, the abolition of the slave trade and the defeat of Nazism."
Cambridge University is seeking to 'decolonise the dodo' by hiring a PhD student to delve into the imperial connections of specimens, highlight racial ideas, violent colonial activities and resource exploitation.
With the world turning full-circle, post-World War Two concepts of human rights, equality and local agency are exiting the international stage. The WHO's 'vaccine equity' is veiled colonialism, says Dr David Bell.
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